Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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Anthony Amsterdam, 40, went to Stanford University to teach law in 1969 but has spent as much time in court as in the classroom. One of the nation's ranking experts in criminal law and civil rights, he has defended Chicago Seven Attorney William Kunstler, Black Panther Bobby Seale and Militant Angela Davis. He became principal architect of the campaign to abolish the death penalty, successfully arguing his case before the Supreme Court in 1972. A former clerk for the late Felix Frankfurter and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Amsterdam has a passion for underdogs of any kind. "After the revolution," he says jokingly, "I will be representing the capitalists."

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Wendell Anderson, 41, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota, has frozen property taxes for the elderly, initiated stringent environmental measures and given his state a tough campaign-financing law. Son of a St. Paul meat packer, he worked his way through college and law school, played on the U.S. Olympic hockey team in 1956 and won a seat in the state legislature —all by the time he was 25. Anderson won the governorship in 1970 even though he endorsed a sizable increase in personal income taxes. His detractors now call him "Spendy Wendy," but the increase has paid for the most equitable school-financing program in the nation, and Anderson is expected to skate through this fall's re-election campaign.

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Cecil D. Andrus, 42, Governor of Idaho, is a sturdily independent sort who refused help from Idaho's Democratic boss in his first unsuccessful run for the statehouse. When the four-time state senator tried again in 1970, his name was better known, and he became Idaho's first Democratic Governor in 24 years. Voters are "looking for leadership that's willing to lead, not someone they have to kick into the next century," says Andrus, an advocate of environmental and educational causes. Son of a lumbermill operator, Andrus is a man of modest means. His race for re-election in November should be a cakewalk; he is interested in campaigning for the U.S. Senate when his second term is up in 1978.

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Jerry Apodaca, 40, was a successful insurance and real estate man in Las Cruces before he won a state senate seat in 1966. Three years later he became chairman of the legislature's reform-minded school study committee and head of New Mexico's Democratic Party. "If you're right on the issues, you may get in trouble with the politicians but not with the people," says Apodaca, who beat his closest opponent by just over 10,000 votes in a six-man scramble for the gubernatorial nomination last month. Supported by labor, Chicano activists and liberals, Apodaca favors establishment of ombudsman-like "citizen service centers" throughout the state.

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Paul J. Asciolla, 40, a member of the Italian-founded Scalabrini Fathers, was assigned to a quiet post in a Chicago suburban old people's home in 1965 as a reprimand for his public involvement in civil rights. As an Italian-American concerned with the problems of ethnic groups in the U.S., Asciolla has become one of Chicago's—and America's —leading spokesmen for immigrant Americans. A colorful, somewhat garrulous priest from Rhode Island, he crisscrosses the U.S. as a lecturer on

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